OpenSolaris Community: Advocacy
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Community Observers
The Advocacy Community Group on opensolaris.org exists to help people
around the world get
involved in the
OpenSolaris community. We welcome participation from people of all
languages and cultures and people with all levels of technical and
non-technical skills.
Everyone
has something to
contribute.
In our community you will find
OpenSolaris
User Groups,
presentations,
news, (
here,
here)
articles,
newsletters,
blogs (
here,
here,
here), technical &
non-technical content, videos and podcasts,
events
and conferences,
community
metrics, swag,
badges
& buttons, and a variety of other promotional projects. And
if we don't have it, we'll try to link to it. Over time the Advocacy
community
will
sponsor both technical and non-technical projects but our focus will
remain on engaging users around the world. Also, over time, the editing
of the Advocacy pages will become easier to manage as opensolaris.org
evolves to
support
customized
wiki functionality (with XWiki). Currently, we
sponsor all the OSUGs, the BeleniX user list, the
trademark project, the mentoring project, the
OpenSolaris DevCon lists, the Kiva lending project, and the OpenSolaris
community awards program
list. Pretty much everything in that mix is geared toward users.
We are just getting started, though. We grew out of the
merger last year of three previous OpenSolaris communities --
Marketing, User
Groups, and Immigrants -- and during that process we migrated all the
OSUGs to individual project spaces on the site. Links to the entire
discussion about that
merger (including links to former list
archives) and the creation of the Advocacy community can be found on
the
Advocacy
merger archive page. Also, our hope is to work closely with all the
OpenSolaris distributions as they mature and as we all build a global
user community around OpenSolaris
technologies.
Join the Advocacy Community: 3
Easy Steps
- Register on opensolaris.org: https://www.opensolaris.org/register.jspa
- Sign up to the advocacy-discuss mail list: sign
up, archives,
web
forum
- Participate
Values & Governance
Our defining values
are simple: We embrace and promote the
OpenSolaris Values,
and we are a community group in good standing under the
OpenSolaris
Constitution.
Facilitator
Jim Grisanzio
(jim
dot
grisanzio at sun dot com). The Advocacy facilitator is
responsible for managing any voting issues and notifying the secretary
of the OGB regarding changes to the Contributor and/or Core
Contributors
lists. The facilitator also reports to the OGB when needed and
communicates back to Advocacy about any OGB-related issues. The role of
community facilitators is outlined in
section
7.5 of the OpenSolaris Constitution.
Contributors,
Core Contributors, & Leaders
The Advocacy community's Contributors and Core Contributors
are
all listed here. You can also search/sort under the
“grants” tab at
http://vote.opensolaris.org/
for a list of Advocacy contributors as well as all the OpenSolaris
contributors. For an
explanation of the roles of Contributors and Core Contributors and
voting
procedures, see the
OpenSolaris
Constitution. To make matters a bit confusing, there is also a set
of "
leaders"
that have edit rights to the Advocacy community's pages, and they may
or may not
also be Contributors and Core Contributors under the Constitution.
That's a governance-website
bug.
We'll
get it fixed. Also, when the opensolaris.org infrastructure
expands to support
XWiki
functionality (
also
see
restructuring of opensolaris.org), the various site roles will be
much easier to explain and track.
Current projects
and/or lists/pages sponsored by the Advocacy CG
Current list of Advocacy-endorsed Projects:
Voting Procedures, User Group Proposals, Project Proposals
The Advocacy community's voting procedures are based on the
OpenSolaris
Constitution and the OpenSolaris Governing Board's
Project
Instantiation Policy and cover the following areas: Participant,
Contributor, Core Contributor, User Group Proposals, Project Proposals.
If any of this is confusing -- and it most certainly is -- just ask on
advocacy-discuss (
sign
up,
archives,
forum).
- Participant:
To be a Participant, just register on
opensolaris.org and advocacy-discuss and participate in community
conversations and events.
- Contributor:
To earn Contributor status you need to be nominated by a Contributor or
Core Contributor. You also need a total of two +1 votes and no -1
votes.
Only Core Contributors can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss
for five days. The initial nomination is considered a +1 vote. After
the voting, the new Contributor must respond to the thread and accept
his or her grant.
- Core Contributor:
- To earn Core Contributor status, which means you have voting
privileges, you need to be nominated by a Core
Contributor.
You also need a total of three +1 votes with no -1 votes. Only Core
Contributors can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for five
days. The initial nomination is considered a +1 vote. After the voting,
the new Core Contributors must
respond to the thread and accept their grant and they must also acknowledge
the OGB's Policy on Core Contributor Grants.
- To renew your Core Contributor status, just request a renewal
vote on advocacy-discuss. You need three +1 votes with no -1 votes.
Only Core
Contributors can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for five
days.
- User Groups:
To get user
group infrastructure (a project space and mailing list) on
opensolaris.org, you need to send a short proposal to advocacy-discuss
for
approval.
You
need one +1 vote and no -1 votes. Only Core Contributors
can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for three days. Write
your proposal in the following format:
- Name of your OpenSolaris User Group and the abbreviation
for
the project URL. For example: Japan OpenSolaris User Group. JPOSUG.
Please check the
list of OSUGs for names and abbreviations that are already taken.
- Two or more initial participants listed with their
opensolaris.org
user IDs
- A short paragraph description of the group -- including
location
(City, State, Country),
activities planned, related organizations, etc. Keep it simple.
If your user group proposal is approved, the Advocacy Community
Facilitator will work with you to set
up a project space and mail list.
- Projects:
Project
proposals follow the OGB's Project
Instantiation Policy. Voting follows the Constitution (Section
8.4). You need three +1 votes and no -1 votes. Only Core
Contributors
can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for five days. Write
your proposal in the following format (which is edited to help reduce
the complexity of the OGB's Instantiation Policy and Constitution):
- Full project name and abbreviation for the project URL. Please
do not propose the use of "OpenSolaris" in your project name.
OpenSolaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. Use a generic name
instead.
- A short synopsis of the project's purpose.
- A list of community groups sponsoring the project (Advocacy is
the only one that is necessary).
- A list of initial participants with their opensolaris.org user
IDs, including a single
individual who will serve as the leader.
- A one paragraph description of the project.
If your proposal is approved, the Advocacy
facilitator will set
up a project space and mail list.
As a leader of your
new user group or project, it is expected that you will maintain your
project space and mail list (filter spam, add/remove names,
communicate with the OpenSolaris webmaster and other community members,
etc)
just as all the other project leads in the OpenSolaris community.
Please review the
OpenSolaris
Website Guidelines and
Sun
trademarks policy so you are clear about various site issues --
especially the policy around mail list management. For instance, if
lists are not used and properly maintained, they can be deleted. Also,
please review the
Community/Project
lead reference so you are familiar with how to manage your
project – especially if you will be taking contributions from
non-Sun members of the community. And, of course, we all expect that
projects
within the Advocacy CG follow the open source spirit of transparency
and the governing rules specified by the OpenSolaris Constitution.
Page Updated: 6/23/09,
Jim
Grisanzio
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